Comments on: The Moon's origin

The Moon's origin

storybored — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:15:40 -0800

One of the earliest known instances of mooning happened during the Fourth Crusade around 1203, when...

By: R.F.Simpson

R.F.Simpson — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:38:16 -0800

Lede Status: not buried

By: mbo

mbo — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:49:56 -0800

To be fair the Polynesian tradition of mooning your enemies in the work up to battle goes back way before the late 1800s

By: Segundus

Segundus — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:13:34 -0800

I got confused by the bit about how the new Pixar film Brave reveals that the Scots of the tenth or eleventh century used to show their buttocks to the enemy British.

By: Prince Lazy I

Prince Lazy I — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:44:17 -0800

"According to Josephus' account in The Wars of the Jews, a Roman soldier bared his rear to an audience of Jews celebrating Passover, and thereby incited a furious riot that killed 'upwards of thirty thousand.' However, a closer examination of Josephus's account shows that the soldier was not mooning the crowd, but rather farting in their general direction. Josephus puts it more delicately: 'One of the soldiers, raising his robe, stooped in an indecent attitude, so as to turn his backside to the Jews, and made a noise in keeping with his posture.'" DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

By: Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 01:05:57 -0800

"Farting in their general direction" elicits the most Beevis and Butthead kind of laugh from me

By: Dr Dracator

Dr Dracator — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 01:47:30 -0800

You have Monty Python to thank for that.

By: Literaryhero

Literaryhero — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 01:54:47 -0800

I appreciate the research, but I'd be willing to bet that mooning people is as old as wearing clothes.

By: Mr. Yuck

Mr. Yuck — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:19:46 -0800

May we always make noises in keeping with our posture.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 04:47:19 -0800

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think that in Braveheart the soldiers didn't just lift up the back side of their kilts; before they did that, one guy ran out front of William Wallace and lifted up the front of his kilt and wagged his dick. ...Last time I was mooned was a couple weeks ago, actually - I had been to the Rockaways and was coming back home on the ferry, and we passed a smaller recreational speedboat with about eight guys on it. As the two boats were passing each other, I saw about four guys all lined up on the side closest to us, butts aloft. ....I'm not sure if anyone else even noticed.

By: biscotti

biscotti — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 05:31:02 -0800

butts aloft ...definitely a good stripper name....

By: mermayd

mermayd — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 06:14:27 -0800

Mooning was alive and well in rural NJ in the 1920s when my mother was a child. She said that the old Ukrainian ladies when they had a serious argument would lift their skirts at each other, and they were not wearing underwear. This town was heavily Slavic of various sorts then; my mom was Polish.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 06:14:36 -0800

"What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory."

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 06:24:11 -0800

"...one of us oughta moon those Saxon dogs."

By: Abehammerb Lincoln

Abehammerb Lincoln — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:49:36 -0800

I now eagerly await the complex history of "hanging brains."

By: Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 08:49:20 -0800

Flag on the Moon. How did it get there?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:02:26 -0800

It turns out that FIAMO was actually NASA policy for much of the latter half of the 20th century.

By: mandolin conspiracy

mandolin conspiracy — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:04:31 -0800

Kilts make mooning pretty intuitive - actually, they make it almost a moral imperative.

By: asperity

asperity — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:19:40 -0800

This is a good candidate for the buttslol and/or lolbutts tags.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:29:56 -0800

Kilts make mooning pretty intuitive - actually, they make it almost a moral imperative. LOL....flashback to the time my town's community theater did Brigadoon. There was a guy who had a whole dance solo during one of the numbers, and we had a choreographer work with him on his solo. When we finally saw the dance in a rehearsal, we saw that it was really athletic - full of a lot of leaps, spins, and twirls. I think the director turned to the actor at some point immediaely after and said "just in case, for the record - you WILL have to wear underwear under your kilt. Period."

By: klanawa

klanawa — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:06:18 -0800

I appreciate the research, but I'd be willing to bet that mooning people is as old as wearing clothes. It seems to be kind of a thing with apes, too, so I figure it goes way further back than that.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:07:42 -0800

My 2 boys discovered the act of showing each other their rear ends all on their own, I assure you this was not a learned behavior. I believe there is a gene for this and it is probably found on the Y chromosome.

By: artdrectr

artdrectr — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:55:37 -0800

It seems to be kind of a thing with apes, too, so I figure it goes way further back than that. More likely an offering than an insult.